Rebekah Brooks' husband said he hid a bag of his pornographic DVDs because he didn't want a "Jacqui Smith moment", the phone hacking trial heard. Ms Smith became embroiled in a row after her husband submitted an expenses claim for watching porn.
The husband of former News International boss Rebekah Brooks hid a bag of pornographic DVDs because he did not want a "Jacqui Smith moment" the phone hacking trial has heard.
Charlie Brooks said he did not want police leaking embarrassing details of the "smut" to the press, and referred to the scandal in which the former Labour Home Secretary got caught up in a row after her husband submitted an expenses claim for watching pornography.
Asked by his counsel Neil Saunders why he hid the pornographic material behind the bins of an underground car park at the couple's flat in Thames Quay, west London. he said: "The DVDs are of an embarrassing nature."
"I did think about my DVDs and I had my Jacqui Smith moment - a Home Secretary who was implicated by her husband's porn," he added. "I didn't want the same thing to happen to Rebekah."
The racehorse trainer and writer described his actions as "stupid and rash."
Brooks, his wife Rebekah and head of security Mark Hanna deny conspiracy to pervert the course of justice between July 5 and 19 2011.
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